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Maybe all that glitters isn't gold, but jewellery gifts will always delight and impress. To thrill a special person in your life, spend a little bit of time selecting the perfect jewellery gift. Choosing something dazzling and meaningful is easy when you pay attention to a few small details and match her or his personal style and interests.

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New Arrival

Read our Buyers Guide

Maybe all that glitters isn't gold, but jewellery gifts will always delight and impress. To thrill a special person in your life, spend a little bit of time selecting the perfect jewellery gift. Choosing something dazzling and meaningful is easy when you pay attention to a few small details and match her or his personal style and interests.

Let us help you find a necklace, bracelet, ring, or pair of earrings that will show your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, friend, or child how much you care

Buying for Her

Feb 23, 2016 ,ByBirmingham Goldmasters,1 comment(s)

For many guys, buying jewelry for a woman is intimidating and discouraging. Like her shoes and her clothes, her jewelry speaks directly to her personal tastes, yet it uses a language and lexicon most of us find obscure and barely familiar. Meanwhile, some pieces of jewelry are loaded with symbolism ready to pop us like land mines if we’re not careful.

For many guys, buying jewellery for a woman is intimidating and discouraging. Like her shoes and her clothes, her jewellery speaks directly to her personal tastes, yet it uses a language and lexicon most of us find obscure and barely familiar. Meanwhile, some pieces of jewelry are loaded with symbolism ready to pop us like land mines if we’re not careful.

As a result, buying the right piece of jewellery begins to feel a lot like being down to your last dart, and in the wide sprawl around the bull's-eye, around getting it right, there seems to be a thousand ways to miss the mark and get it all wrong. So, here are some suggestions — both general and more specific — to steer you in the right direction.

Listen to her

Easier said than done for many of us, but in this instance it more accurately means to be listening for when she does drop a hint. If push comes to shove, try to induce a hint: Take her to the mall on some pretense and walk her past every jewellery store in the complex. She's bound to point out something that catches her eye.

Look at her

Over the course of a week, as you see her dressed up for different occasions — work, a dinner out, a party — take inventory of each piece of jewelry she wears, noting as best you can the nature of the jewellery. Ascertaining what she wears and what she doesn’t gives you a solid head start. After all, if she never wears earrings, there’s little point buying her a pair; but if she can’t make up her mind between hoops or studs, you may be on to something.

Appraise her taste

Using the results of your inventory, then broadening that scope to include her wider style in clothes, appraise her tastes. Does she have finer tastes, getting weak-kneed in the presence of another woman’s massive diamond ring? Or are you one of the luckier guys whose companion prefers the variety and accessibility of less expensive costume jewellery?

Ask for advice

This is dangerous ground, so tread lightly. The problem with asking her friends for advice is that you’re engaging one woman in a conspiracy of silence against another , and almost inevitably something’s gonna give. Instead of having to find this out too late, eschew the friends and stick with reliable family members. Sisters are an excellent source of information, especially if they are close in age and spend a great deal of time together. No doubt they've poured of many a childhood fantasy about knights in shining armour — and their gifts.